Is the bacon shortage hogwash?

You’ve heard about the bacon shortage, brought on by the Midwest drought and lower corn and soybean yields.

Fears are growing that there will be a run on the stuff. You know, when BLTs are outlawed, only outlaws will have BLTs.

Rest easy, America. You can have your BTL and eat it, too. Photo by Getty Images.

But now NBC News, which admits it went for the bacon shortage story earlier this week, has rooted around and decided that the squealing about a bacon shortage doesn’t add up.

“It’s a challenging time because of drought for both consumers and producers and food costs will rise,” Cindy Cunningham of the National Pork Board told NBC News, but we’re “not going to see people in line for bacon… there will be no bacon rationing.”

And the story concludes:

So hold your horses, bacon lovers, there’s no need to buy a deep freezer and fill it with all the bacon you can get your hands on. The green number on the LCD screen at checkout might be slightly higher than what you’re used to, but there’s no bacon crisis.

“Bacon prices in the next few months should be quite stable as there is a steady supply of pork going to market and in cold storage,” said Matt Swantek, swine field specialist at Iowa State University.